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Ask HN: Recommend a server co in Europe

14 points by callmeed 18y ago

I've got a couple projects that require a dedicated server/VPS be physically located in Europe. Right now, I use Rackspace, Joyent, and Slicehost for projects. Looking for something similar in the EU. Thanks.

cnu 18y ago
We use Hertzner (http://www.hetzner.de/ http://www.hetzner.de/) in my company. Pretty good machines and cheap too.
- joao 18y ago
  Really good offer, considering that's in Europe. Unfortunately they only have a German site and, I suppose, support.
  - pogos 18y ago
    http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/contact/en-support-center/ http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/contact/en-support-center/ - they have english speaking support. Also, some parts of their site is translated to english. Try pressing little english flag. There is also http://server4you.de/ http://server4you.de/. It's only in german though.
    - bartman 18y ago
      I can recommend Hetzner, very good network, very good administration utilities (free web-reboots, remote console if you need it, recovery system), excellent service. server4you however is a provider focusing on the "I need a cheap root server!"-segment, I would not recommend putting all your trust in them, they have a history of failures here in Germany.
tahir 18y ago
Callmeed, I am looking to use Slicehost, how is your experience with them? Thanks.
- callmeed 18y ago
  Slicehost is wonderful ... they aren't a "managed" company but their support is great. They reply to tickets fast and have a support chatroom. They also have some great articles for getting slices prepped for php/rails/django apps on different distros: http://articles.slicehost.com/ http://articles.slicehost.com/ I wont name names, but I've had better support from Slicehost than a managed RoR hosting company that costs 5x.
  - lazarette 18y ago
    Slicehost are great, but afaik they are hosted in the US. Rackspace and Serverbeach good in the UK.
mark_ellul 18y ago
we were using Flexiscale (by XCalibre) but their last outage was long, and corrupted all our data. So I would avoid them!
Russelldb 18y ago
http://rimuhosting.com http://rimuhosting.com now have a datacentre presence in the UK (London). I find them very useful but best of all they have very, very good support. They are NZ based.
- spazmaster 18y ago
  I second rimuhosting, using them with both my companies (Soocial.com and eightmedia.com)
Deadsunrise 18y ago
You can find cheap dedicated servers in france at www.ovh.com . They have a lot of OS distributions and if you can manage your own servers it's a good choice. I work in an spanish ISP and we exchange traffic with them at AMS-IX so it should be properly connected to all the important european ISPs.
- unintelligible 18y ago
  OVH also have sites for UK, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Polish customers (see the flags at the bottom of OVH.com), not just France. The pricing does seem to vary depending on the country though (the cheapest UK 'real private server' costs 9.99GBP in the UK, and 9.99 Euros (7.91GBP) in France).
silencio 18y ago
ovh, vectoral (netdirekt dc, not reselling), leaseweb I've had personal experiences with. their support generally sort of sucks (at least they reply to you..hehe). oh, ovh doesn't sell to people living in certain countries. they said they'd change their policy sometime soon, but have yet to see it..
Erwin 18y ago
Rackspace does also have a datacenter in UK. We have a small server there to satisfy certain EU privacy laws.
- callmeed 18y ago
  Really? That's great ... I will look into it.
macco 18y ago
DomainFactory works pretty well for me. http://df.eu http://df.eu
3KWA 18y ago
OVH
luis_ca 18y ago
I use slicehost from the UK and performance is good.
st3fan 18y ago
I am very happy with http://hosteurope.de http://hosteurope.de .. excellent service, good hardware, barely downtime. They have VPS instances and also dedicated servers for prices you can only dream of in the US.
wlievens 18y ago
hosteurope.de is very cheap and has excellent VPS deals.

14 points by callmeed 18y ago

cnu 18y ago

We use Hertzner (http://www.hetzner.de/ http://www.hetzner.de/) in my company. Pretty good machines and cheap too.

joao 18y ago
Really good offer, considering that's in Europe. Unfortunately they only have a German site and, I suppose, support.
- pogos 18y ago
  http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/contact/en-support-center/ http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/contact/en-support-center/ - they have english speaking support. Also, some parts of their site is translated to english. Try pressing little english flag. There is also http://server4you.de/ http://server4you.de/. It's only in german though.
  - bartman 18y ago
    I can recommend Hetzner, very good network, very good administration utilities (free web-reboots, remote console if you need it, recovery system), excellent service. server4you however is a provider focusing on the "I need a cheap root server!"-segment, I would not recommend putting all your trust in them, they have a history of failures here in Germany.

tahir 18y ago

Callmeed, I am looking to use Slicehost, how is your experience with them? Thanks.

callmeed 18y ago
Slicehost is wonderful ... they aren't a "managed" company but their support is great. They reply to tickets fast and have a support chatroom. They also have some great articles for getting slices prepped for php/rails/django apps on different distros: http://articles.slicehost.com/ http://articles.slicehost.com/ I wont name names, but I've had better support from Slicehost than a managed RoR hosting company that costs 5x.
- lazarette 18y ago
  Slicehost are great, but afaik they are hosted in the US. Rackspace and Serverbeach good in the UK.

mark_ellul 18y ago

we were using Flexiscale (by XCalibre) but their last outage was long, and corrupted all our data. So I would avoid them!

Russelldb 18y ago

http://rimuhosting.com http://rimuhosting.com now have a datacentre presence in the UK (London). I find them very useful but best of all they have very, very good support. They are NZ based.

spazmaster 18y ago
I second rimuhosting, using them with both my companies (Soocial.com and eightmedia.com)

Deadsunrise 18y ago

You can find cheap dedicated servers in france at www.ovh.com . They have a lot of OS distributions and if you can manage your own servers it's a good choice. I work in an spanish ISP and we exchange traffic with them at AMS-IX so it should be properly connected to all the important european ISPs.

unintelligible 18y ago
OVH also have sites for UK, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Polish customers (see the flags at the bottom of OVH.com), not just France. The pricing does seem to vary depending on the country though (the cheapest UK 'real private server' costs 9.99GBP in the UK, and 9.99 Euros (7.91GBP) in France).

silencio 18y ago

ovh, vectoral (netdirekt dc, not reselling), leaseweb I've had personal experiences with. their support generally sort of sucks (at least they reply to you..hehe). oh, ovh doesn't sell to people living in certain countries. they said they'd change their policy sometime soon, but have yet to see it..

Erwin 18y ago

Rackspace does also have a datacenter in UK. We have a small server there to satisfy certain EU privacy laws.

callmeed 18y ago
Really? That's great ... I will look into it.

macco 18y ago

DomainFactory works pretty well for me. http://df.eu http://df.eu

3KWA 18y ago

OVH

luis_ca 18y ago

I use slicehost from the UK and performance is good.

st3fan 18y ago

I am very happy with http://hosteurope.de http://hosteurope.de .. excellent service, good hardware, barely downtime. They have VPS instances and also dedicated servers for prices you can only dream of in the US.

wlievens 18y ago

hosteurope.de is very cheap and has excellent VPS deals.